Co-reporter: Yuan Zhuang, Mengshi Zhang, Bin Chen, Ruixue Duan, Xuehong Min, Zhenyu Zhang, Fuxin Zheng, Huageng Liang, Zujin Zhao, Xiaoding Lou, and Fan Xia
pp: 9487
Publication Date(Web):August 19, 2015
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02699
Telomerase is a widely used tumor biomarker for early cancer diagnosis. On the basis of the combined use of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) fluorogens and quencher, a quencher group induced high specificity strategy for detection of telomerase activity from cell extracts and cancer patients’ urine specimens was creatively developed. In the absence of telomerase, fluorescence background is extremely low due to the short distance between quencher and AIE dye. In the addition of telomerase, fluorescence enhances significantly. The telomerase activity in the E-J, MCF-7, and HeLa extracts equivalent to 5–10 000 cells can be detected by this method in ∼1 h. Furthermore, the distinguishing of telomerase extracted from 38 cancer and 15 normal urine specimens confirms the reliability and practicality of this protocol. In contrast to our previous results (Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 6822–6827), these advanced experiments obtain more remarkable specificity.